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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Fly-leaf Scribhlings. — On a MS. by an English 

 scribe, fifteenth century : 



"Jesus that made bothe sea and lande 

 Sende me grace to amend my hande." 



Giving the reason for our finding so much scrib- 

 bling on the old books ; the margins were, in fact, 

 the copybooks of the rising generation, paper and 

 TcUuni being scarce. 



" William Holker is my name, 

 I pray God seude me a good fame. Amen." 



"Ut pelicanus fit matris sanguine sanus, 

 Sic genus humanum fit Xpi sanguine sanum." 



" Sunt secuta Deo tria soli cognita summo, 

 Mens, et mors hominis, judiciique dies." 



" Hii sunt articuli, quod sit Deus ternus et unus, 

 Xps homo factus, natus, pas^usque, sepultus, 

 Descendens, surgens, scandens, judexque futurus." 



In a beautiful Psalter in the Museum (Arun- 

 del) : 



"I beshrewe the false fox that made many false mar- 

 tyrs and did steale this goose [viz. the book] without 

 leave, that he neither bred nor yet paid for." 



J. C. J. 



Inscription in a Register of Baptisrns. — On the 

 cover of A JBooke of Register for Christenings 

 made the viii daie of Aprill Anno Dom. 1607, are 

 the following lines. They may interest some of 

 the readers of " N. & Q." : — 



" Lo heare thou maiest with mortall eie beholdc 

 Thy name recorded by a mortall righte ; 

 But if thou canste looke but spiritualie 

 Unto that God which giues such heaunly sighte, 

 Thou maiest beholde w"' comfort to thy Soule 

 Thj- name recorded in the heauenly Roule ; 

 And therefore praie the Register of heauen 

 To write thy name within the booke of Life. 

 And also praie thy sinns male be forgiuen, 

 And that thou maiest flee all sinn and strife, 

 That when thy mortall bodie shall haue ende. 

 Thy soule maie to the Imortal Lord assende." 



There is a name affixed, but being written with 

 a paler ink, 1 cannot decipher it. The date in the 

 cooler is 1609. 



The register books of this parish are most of 

 them in excellent preservation, and some of very 

 early date. Wm. Francis Tbegarthen. 



The Abbey, Tewkesbury. 



Lord Nelson and Jack Rider the Loblolly Boy. — 



" Jack was what they call loblolly boy on board the 

 • Victory.' It was his duty to do anything and every- 

 thing that was required — from sweeping ana washing 

 the deck, and saying ' Amen ' to the chaplain, down to 

 cleaning the guns, and helping the doctor to make pills 

 and plasters, and mix medicines. Four days before the 

 battle that was so glorious to England, but so fatal to its 

 greatest hero, Jack was ordered by the doctor to fetch a 

 bottle that was standing in a particular place. Jack ran 

 off, post haste, to the spot, where he found what appeared 

 to be an empty bottle. Curiosity was uppermost; 'What,' 

 thought Jack, 'can there be about this empty bottle?' 

 He examined it carefullj', but couldn't comprehend the 

 mystery, so he thought that he would call in the aid of a 



candle, to throw light on the subject. The bottle con- 

 tained ether, and the result of the examination was that 

 the vapour ignited, and the flames extended to some of 

 the sails, and also to a part of the ship. There was a 

 general confusion — running with buckets and what not 

 — and, to make matters worse, the fire was rapidly ex- 

 tending to the powder magazine. During the hubbub, 

 Lord Nelson was in the chief cabin writing dispatches. 

 His lordship heard the noise — he couldn't do otherwise — 

 and so, in a loud voice, he called out, ' What's all that 

 d — d noise about ? ' The boatswain answered, ' My Lord, 

 the loblolly boy's set fire to an empty bottle, and it's set 

 fire to the ship.' ' Oh ! ' said Nelson, ' that's all, is it ? I 

 thought the enemy had boarded us and taken us all pri- 

 soners — you and loblolly must put it out, and take care 

 we're not blown up ! but pray make as little noise about 

 it as you can, or I can't go on with my dispatches,' and 

 with these words Nelson went to his desk, and continued 

 his writing with the greatest coolness." — Dixon's Storiet 

 of the Craven Dales. 



This anecdote is true, and Captain Carslake of 

 Sidmouth permits me to use his name in corro- 

 boration. He was an officer of " The Victory " at 

 the time, and heard Nelson use the above words. 



J. H. D. 



ARcanisHOP laud's works. 



The Editor of Archbishop Laud's Works in 

 the Anglo-Catholic library is preparing an addi- 

 tional volume for the press. It will contain a 

 large amount of matter hitherto unpublished, 

 consisting, Ijesides other documents, of speeches 

 prepared for King Charles and the Duke of 

 Buckingham, still preserved in the State Papei? 

 Office, in Laud's handwriting ; and 140 letters, 

 chiefly from the same quarter, addressed by 

 Laud to King Charles, the Queen of Bohemia, 

 the Prince, her son. Sir Thomas Rowe, Sir John 

 Lambe, Lord Conway, the Secretary of State, and 

 his son, Abp. Ussher, and other persons. 



The editor will gladly receive any information 

 respecting such letters or papers of the Abp. as 

 may be remaining in private hands, or in any 

 public institutions, except the Bodleian Library, 

 the British Museum, Lambeth Library, and the 

 State Paper Office, in which repositories a careful 

 search has already been made. 



Communications will be kindly received and 

 forwarded to him by the Editor of " N. & Q." 



Christopher Smart's Lilliputian Magazine. — 

 The query of a late correspondent respecting 

 Smart's Song of David has reminded me of an in- 

 quiry I am desirous of making, namely. Where 

 can I see a copy of The Lilliputian Magazine which 

 Smart edited ? I know the work is of extreme 

 rarity, for the late Mr. Thomas Rodd, who men- 



